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Steven J. Buri
March 18, 2020
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Purpose and Hope in a Time of Turmoil

Steven J. Buri
March 18, 2020
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During a recent staff meeting, two Discovery Institute staff members referenced C.S. Lewis’s essay, On Living in the Atomic Age. In this new era of coronavirus uncertainty, Lewis’s words offer comfort in knowing that the situation we face is not unique, nor unprecedented. The world has faced many plagues before, and wars, and suffering, and the economic uncertainty that often accompanies these periods. And — as has been the case throughout history — human beings face death, regardless of its cause. As I write this, a close friend is suffering severely (and bravely) from cancer. I feared for him, and prayed for him, long before coronavirus came on the scene. Now we fear another contagion en masse. Read More ›
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Walter Bradley, Robert J. Marks II, Roger L. Olsen, Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
March 18, 2020
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Walter Bradley on the Mystery of Life’s Origin

Walter Bradley, Robert J. Marks II, Roger L. Olsen, Charles Thaxton and Stephen C. Meyer
March 18, 2020
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The origin of life from non-life remains one of the most enduring mysteries of modern science. Dr. Walter Bradley explains why materialist suppositions fail as science, pointing to the need for an intelligent author of the first life. At the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith his presentation explored the paradox-filled intellectual world of origin-of-life research. According to Bradley, Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
March 17, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology
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We Will Never Go Back to the Pre-COVID-19 Workplace

Jonathan Bartlett
March 17, 2020
Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Technology
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While many people (myself included) have railed against the excesses of technology and its tendency to weaken community spirit and understanding, it turns out that, in the present crisis, it is having the opposite effect. We are all stuck in our houses for the next several weeks. However, thanks to our new digital infrastructure, we aren’t really alone in the same way any more. Read More ›
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Michael Newton Keas
March 16, 2020
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Three Big Ways Christianity Supported the Rise of Modern Science Explained by Historian Michael Keas

Michael Newton Keas
March 16, 2020
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Are Christianity and science at war? Historian of science Michael Keas busts the stereotypes as he explores the historical relationship between Christianity and science, discussing three key ways Christian theology supported the development of modern science. Dr. Keas is author of the book Unbelievable: 7 Myths about the History and Future of Science and Religion, and a senior fellow with Read More ›

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Michael Newton Keas
March 16, 2020
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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Are Christianity and Science Perpetually at War with Each Other

Michael Newton Keas
March 16, 2020
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Historian of science Michael Keas explores the relationship between science and Christianity, discussing three big myths about the history of science and Christianity. Dr. Keas is author of Unbelievable: 7 Myths about the History and Future of Science and Religion. “There is a false idea circulating out there that science grows only when guided by godless thinking.” On the contrary, Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Biden’s Coronavirus Adviser Wants to Die at 75

Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
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Joe Biden has announced the creation of a “Public Health Advisory Committee,” consisting of Democratic experts to advise him about how to best grapple with the coronavirus during the campaign. The bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel — the most famous person on the committee — made headlines a few years ago by writing that he wants to die at age 75 before becoming "feeble, ineffectual". Joe Biden is 77. Read More ›
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3D illustration Virus DNA molecule, structure. Concept destroyed code human genome. Damage DNA molecule. Helix consisting particle, dots. DNA destruction due to gene mutation or experiment
Michael J. Behe
March 11, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Selected Journal Articles by Michael Behe

Michael J. Behe
March 11, 2020
Intelligent Design
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Getting There First: An Evolutionary Rate Advantage for Adaptive Loss-of-Function Mutations Michael J. Behe Biological Information: New Perspectives, edited by R. J. Marks II, M. J. Behe, W. A. Dembski, and B. L. Gordon. World Scientific Publishing, Hong Kong, 450-473. Abstract: Over the course of evolution organisms have adapted to their environments by mutating to gain new functions or to Read More ›

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Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Plot Twist

Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Homelessness has been circumscribed around a set of premises acceptable to progressive opinion. The homeless were thrown onto the streets, we’re told, because of rising rents, heartless landlords, and a lack of economic opportunity. But new data are undermining this narrative. Read More ›
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Bill Walton
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Bill Walton and Steve Moore on the Trump Economy

Bill Walton
March 10, 2020
Economics
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Last week I interviewed economist Steve Moore at a conference with conservative leaders. While the capital markets sell-off and bad coronavirus news had not yet had hit galeforce levels, as it has this week, they were looming. I’m posting this to remind us that even in the face of fierce headwinds, the United States has entered this troubling time riding Read More ›